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Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: PenguinPutnam/New American Library
ISBN-10: 0451207300
Type: Fiction
Pages: 384
Copyright: Jul 1 2002
ISBN-13: 9781626810822
New York and Florida are quarantined. International travel is halted. A Japanese doomsday cult commits mass suicide, its final mission accomplished. Dr. Carol Mayer, a physician in the coastal city of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, was the first to alert the Centers for Disease Control-- but now, as the epidemic spreads, she and the rest of civilization stands on the brink of extinction. The only hope rests with Beck Casey, a former intelligence expert on lethal biological agents. The trouble is, his potential allies to save humanity's future are the worst enemies from his past...
SAN DIEGO - AP-- The United States is not prepared for an attack by terrorists using viruses as biological weapons, which is likely to happen within the next decade, experts say.
“This is not the stuff of science fiction,” said Margaret Hamburg, a bioterrorism expert with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “This is a very real threat and there is a real urgency that we address it.”
Hamburg spoke Friday at a two-day conference here, where more than 300 physicians, scientists, public officials and law enforcement agents have gathered to discuss strategies for dealing with a potential biological attack.
According to D.A. Henderson, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, the question is not if an attack will occur, but when.
“We're likely to see an attack within the next five to 10 years,” Henderson warned the group.
— Associated Press,
February 5, 2000
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“I know how not to get AIDS. I don’t know how not to get the flu.”
— Alfred W. Crosby,
Historian; author of
America’s Forgotten Pandemic:
A History of the 1918 Flu
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